Wingate, N.C.----The Wingate University Sports Information staff has compiled All-Decade teams for each of the 17 sports at the University. Over the course of the next three weeks, a new team will be released periodically. Today, we recognize the standouts for the men’s basketball team from the 2000 through the 2009 seasons. On Wednesday afternoon, the women’s basketball All-Decade team will be released.
Guards
Lorinza “Junior” Harrington (Wagram, N.C.) - First team All-South Atlantic Conference selection in 2001-02...Awarded the South Atlantic Conference Player of the Year in senior season...First team All-Region...Named first team All-American by Basketball Times Magazine in 2001...Named third team All-American by the Division II Bulletin magazine following senior year....Averaged 14.8 points per game and 6.4 assists per game in 2001-02...Finished second all-time in the history of the SAC with 584 assists...Holds the single season record for assists with 204 during 2001-02 season...Also holds the fourth best mark in same category with 193 in 2000-01...Registered a career-high 13 assists twice in career, once against North Carolina Central in 2001 and the other against Newberry in the same year...Career assist average is 4.83, which ranks third all-time in the SAC...Finished second all-time in the conference with 263 steals...105 steals in 2001-02 are the second most in a single season in SAC history...Posted a career-high eight steals against Lenoir-Rhyne in 2002, which is the second most all-time for a single game...Career steal average is 2.17, which ranks fourth all-time...Played in 82 games during the 2002-03 season for the Denver Nuggets of the NBA...Only member of the team to play in every game during the season...Averaged 5.1 points per game with Nuggets....Played for the New Orleans Hornets in 2004-05, averaging 5.6 points per game and 2.1 assists per game...Scored career-high 22 points against Charlotte Bobcats...Played 29 games for Memphis Grizzlies in 2006-07....Finished with 13 points, eight rebounds and eight assists, playing all 48 minutes against the Los Angeles Lakers in an overtime win...
Djuan Hankins (Roanoke, Va.) - Three-time first team All-South Atlantic Conference...Daktronics All-South Atlantic Region...Second all-time in SAC with 232 three-point feld goals made...Averaged 19.8 points, 4.6 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 2.0 steals during senior season...During same season, shot 43.8 percent from the field, 40.3 percent from three-point land and 72.1 percent from foul line... At the time, became the fourth men’s player in SAC history to tally 1,500 points, 300 assists, 300 rebounds and 100 steals during his collegiate career...Led the Bulldogs to a three-way tie for first place in the South Atlantic Conference regular season in 2002-03...Career-high 33 points against Fayetteville State in 2002...
Keenan Dunn (Charlotte, N.C.) - First team All-SAC in 2003-04 season...Named Freshman of the Year in 2000-01 season...Second team All-Region during senior season...Led the South Atlantic Conference in scoring for the majority of senior season, finishing year with 18.6 points per game...Led the league in three-point field goals made per game with 3.04 triples per game during senior year...Completed his Wingate career with 1,668 points...Averaged double-figures every year for Bulldogs...Led Wingate to two SAC regular season titles and two NCAA Division II tournament berths...Made 85 three-pointers in 2003-04, which is sixth most all time during a season in SAC history...Scored a career-high 31 points against Queens (N.C.) in 2003...
Forwards
Sean Barnette (Rock Hill, S.C.) - Two-time SAC Male Athlete of the Year (first male student-athlete to win the award two years in a row)...Two-time South Atlantic Conference Player of the Year...Freshman of the Year in 2004-05 season...Four-time All-South Atlantic Conference selection... First team All-Conference 2007-08, 2006-07, 2005-06...Second team All-SAC in 2004-05...Two-time Food Lion SAC Tournament Most Valuable Player...First team Daktronics All-American in 2008...Third team Daktronics All-American in 2007...Named first team All-American by Basketball Times magazine...East Team MVP in the College Basketball Invitational All-Star game...Played in NABC/NCAA Division II All-Star Game... Named 2008 South Atlantic Region Co-Player of the Year by Daktronics...All-Region in 2007...Named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III men’s basketball first team his junior year...All-time leading scorer in SAC with 2,324 points...Became first SAC male player ever to score 2,000+ points...Scored 735 points in 2006-07, which ranks second all-time for a single season...Ranks first all-time in field goals made (846) and field goals attempted (1718)...Finished second in total rebounds in SAC history with 919...Pulled down a SAC record 305 rebounds during the 2007-08 season...Finished career with 237 offensive rebounds, which ranks sixth all-time...Sixth all-time in SAC with 217 three-point field goals...Led Wingate to South Atlantic Region title in 2007-08 season...Wingate won 35 South Atlantic Conference games and 75 overall games during career...Bulldogs became first SAC men’s team to ever advance to Elite Eight...Averaged 19.2 points and 7.6 rebounds in Wingate career...Currently playing for the Iowa Energy in the National Basketball Developmental League...
Bryan Grier (Charlotte, N.C.) - Three-time All-SAC selection...First team All-SAC in 2007-08 season...Second team All-SAC in 2006-07 and 2005-06...SAC and NCAA Division II all-time career leader in blocked shots with 455 rejections...Finished first in Division II in block average for the 2005-06 season with 4.9 per game...Holds the three highest single-season block totals in South Atlantic Conference history (151, 120, 119)...Blocked at least six shots in a game 27 times during career...Blocked nine shots in a game twice during career...Blocked eight shots in a game four times during career...Blocked seven shots in a game six times...Finished with 1,395 points as a Bulldog...Finished fourth all-time on career rebounds list in SAC with 889...Second all-time in SAC with 301 offensive rebounds...Pulled down a career-high 19 rebounds against Catawba in 2008...All-time leader in career field goal percentage in SAC (.619)...Finished Bulldog career averaging 11.4 points, 7.2 rebounds, and 3.7 blocks...
Player of the Decade: Barnette
Former Wingate head coach Parker Laketa on Barnette:
“Sean clearly had stiff competition in winning this award, but it was well deserved. Throughout his career, Sean consistently performed, both athletically and academically. Like Junior Harrington, Sean will have a long professional playing career and be an outstanding ambassador for the Wingate Basketball and the University.”
WINGATE UNIVERSITY
Founded in 1896, Wingate University is a private four-year co-educational institution of 2,159 students offering active learning opportunities through personalized instruction, world travel, career discovery and community service.
Wingate offers more than 40 undergraduate majors in arts and sciences, business, communication, education, fine arts, music and sport sciences. It also offers graduate degrees in business, education, physician assistant studies and sport administration. In addition, the school awards the doctor of pharmacy and the doctor of education degrees.
Bulldog student-athletes compete in 19 NCAA Division II sports. Wingate University has won the South Atlantic Conference Echols Athletic Excellence Award for the past three years.
Wingate University is ranked number three among NCAA Division II Academic All-America® producing schools in the 2000’s with 34 honorees during this millennium. Only Pittsburg State (Kan.) University and Truman State (Mo.) University have produced more Academic All-America® honorees during this time period. Wingate’s 43 Academic All-America® honorees (lifetime) is tops among all SAC schools.
